Cell based dATP delivery as a therapy for chronic heart failure

Abstract Transplanted human pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hPSC-CMs) improve ventricular performance when delivered acutely post-myocardial infarction but are ineffective in chronic myocardial infarction/heart failure. 2’-deoxy-ATP (dATP) activates cardiac myosin and potently increases contractility. Here we engineered hPSC-CMs to overexpress ribonucleotide reductase, the enzyme controlling dATP production. In vivo, dATP-producing CMs formed new myocardium that transferred dATP to host cardiomyocytes via gap junctions, increasing their dATP levels. Strikingly, when transplanted into chronically infarcted hearts, dATP-producing grafts increased left ventricular function, whereas heart failure worsened with wild-type grafts or vehicle injections. dATP-donor cells recipients had greater voluntary exercise, improved cardiac metabolism, reduced pulmonary congestion and pathological cardiac hypertrophy, and improved survival. This combination of remuscularization plus enhanced host contractility offers a novel approach to treating the chronically failing heart.One Sentence Summary Transplanting gene-edited dATP-donor cardiomyocytes in chronically infarcted heart restores their cardiac function, improving both exercise tolerance and survival..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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bioRxiv.org - (2023) vom: 02. Mai Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2023

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mhatre, Ketaki N [VerfasserIn]
Mathieu, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Martinson, Amy [VerfasserIn]
Flint, Galina [VerfasserIn]
Blakley, Leslie P. [VerfasserIn]
Tabesh, Arash [VerfasserIn]
Reinecke, Hans [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xiulan [VerfasserIn]
Guan, Xuan [VerfasserIn]
Murali, Eesha [VerfasserIn]
Klaiman, Jordan M [VerfasserIn]
Odom, Guy L [VerfasserIn]
Brown, Mary Beth [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Rong [VerfasserIn]
Hauschka, Stephen D [VerfasserIn]
Raftery, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Moussavi-Harami, Farid [VerfasserIn]
Regnier, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Murry, Charles E [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1101/2023.04.24.538108

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XBI039398307